Punk-Coder

Pluralsight IQ

Published On: Mar 7, 2018

For a long time I think it’s been difficult for me to prove where on the
developer scale I am or a candidate that I am talking to is at relatively. This
is the main problem that I’ve had with interviewing on both sides. The problem
is that most of the assessments are too easy or don’t cover the depth that I
would expect. The problem with this is that it ends up leading the interviewing
process down the road of trying to figure out if the person on the other end of
the phone is capable of doing their job, far more than the important question of
if they are a good fit for the company. This lead me down the road of asking
more analytical questions than questions relating to programming. My favorite
question from this was asking a candidate to act as a consultant and tell me the
factors that they would take into account to help me estimate the number of X
items in a city.

I have been a subscriber to pluralsight for a long time, off and on through
various companies and for a while paying for it on my own.